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  1. the gateway pundit – Breaking: Carter Page – The Lynchpin to Deep State Spying on Trump – Was Working as Spy for FBI

    There has been much speculation on Carter Page the so-called Russian expert and volunteer on the Trump campaign.
    Carter Page sat on a campaign committee that met only once during the campaign.

    The FBI sought FISA warrants FOUR TIMES to spy on Carter Page.

    The warrants on Page then gave the Deep State access to spy on all of the Trump campaign officials.

    Now this…
    Via Conservative Treehouse:

    In 2013 Carter Page was working as an under-cover employee (UCE) of the FBI, helping them to build a case against “Evgeny Buryakov”. In March 2016 Carter Page remained their informant pre-trial. [Note – Pay attention to the names in the following citations]

    Sources: ? In 2013 the U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York, announced an indictment against a Russian Operative Evgeny Buryakov. LINK HERE In March of 2016 Buryakov pleaded GUILTY.

    ? In 2016 Reuters published an article, based on the ongoing court case, going into detail about court records. LINK HERE

    NEW YORK (Reuters) – The FBI eavesdropped on meetings involving Russian intelligence personnel in New York City, including a suspected spy posing as a trade representative, by hiding recorders in binders containing supposedly confidential information about the energy sector, U.S. prosecutors said.

    The hours of covert recordings from 2013 were disclosed in papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in the case of Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian citizen who U.S. prosecutors say posed as a banker while participating in a Cold War-style spy ring.

    […] According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm at an oil and gas industry conference.

    ? In April 2017, writing a story about Carter Page, and trying to enhance/affirm the Russian narrative, they outlined Page’s connections to the Trump campaign, the New York Times referenced Page’s prior connection to the operation. [Notice how the story is shaped] LINK HERE:

    Russian intelligence operatives tried in 2013 to recruit an American businessman and eventual foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who is now part of the F.B.I. investigation into Russia’s interference into the American election, according to federal court documents and a statement issued by the businessman.

    The businessman, Carter Page, met with one of three Russians who were eventually charged with being undeclared officers with Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the S.V.R. The F.B.I. interviewed Mr. Page in 2013 as part of an investigation into the spy ring, but decided that he had not known the man was a spy, and the bureau never accused Mr. Page of wrongdoing.

    It is transparently clear that Carter Page was the Under-Cover Employee (UCE) of the FBI in the 2013 case.
    Carter Page was working for the FBI.

    The question is: Was Carter Page planted inside the Trump campaign to allow the FBI to spy on Trump?

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/breaking-carter-page-lynchpin-deep-state-spying-trump-working-spy-fbi/

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    Fox News -Carter Page on the revelations from the Nunes memo

      • CNN – Cooper: Is memo delay a double standard?

        CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses whether the President’s delay to make the Democratic rebuttal to the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’s memo alleging FBI bias is a double standard.

    • DAILY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI’ after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump

      Adam Schiff, the ranking Democratic member of the House Intel Committee was recorded speaking to Russian pranksters who spun elaborate ‘kompromat’ tale

      He told Vocan and Lexus, two radio pranksters who have also hit Nikki Haley, that he would pass their claims to the FBI in a call made last year

      The duo posed as a fake Ukrainian politician to say Trump had sex with Russian glamour model Olga Buzova after a Miss Universe pageant in 2013

      In the call they said Putin had been passed naked pictures of Trump and now-president had used secret codes for talks with Russians

      Duo gave emails to DailyMail.com which showed Schiff’s staff trying to arrange to collect ‘classified’ documents from Ukraine’s embassy in D.C.

      Schiff’s office claimed he was not fooled by the call and reported it to ‘authorities’ but did not explain why his staff kept up correspondence

      Call posted in April 2017 surfaced as Schiff waits to see if Trump will declassify his Democratic version of the Devin Nunes memo which shamed the FBI

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      The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee was the victim of a prank phone call by Russian comedians who offered to give him ‘compromising’ dirt on Donald Trump – including nude photos of the president and a Russian reality show star.

      DailyMail.com can disclose that after the prank, his staff engaged in correspondence with what they thought was a Ukrainian politician to try to obtain the ‘classified’ material promised on the call.

      On an audio recording of the prank call posted online, Adam Schiff can be heard discussing the committee’s Russia investigation and increasingly bizarre allegations about Trump with a man who claimed to be Andriy Parubiy, the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament.

      The call, made a year ago, was actually from two Russian comedians nicknamed ‘Vovan’ and ‘Lexus’ who have become notorious for their phony calls to high-ranking American officials and celebrities, including UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Elton John.

      Its existence was first reported by The Atlantic but not how a staff member working for the minority on the House Intelligence Committee pursued the information after the call.

      Schiff’s office said the congressman suspected the call was ‘bogus’ from the beginning and reported it to authorities afterward.

      But in a recording of the eight minute conversation, Schiff appeared to take the call seriously – or at least played along convincingly – and emails from the Democrat’s staff to the fake politician afterwards said he had found it ‘productive’.

      Schiff began the call by thanking the ‘chairman’ Andriy Parubiy for his time and warning him that Russian spies were likely listening in.

      ‘I would caution that our Russian friends may be listening to the conversation so I wouldn’t share anything over the phone that you wouldn’t want them to hear,’ said Schiff.

      Vovan, who was posing as Parubiy, reassured Schiff: ‘I don’t think that will impact on our investigation.’

      The fake Parubiy claimed the Ukrainian government had obtained recordings and documents that proved Vladimir Putin was blackmailing Trump with naked photos taken during an affair between the president and a Russian glamour model.

      Vovan also claimed the Ukrainians recorded secret meetings between a Trump campaign aide and a famous Russian singer-turned-spy that took place at a non-existent mafia hangout in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brighton Beach.

      Schiff appeared to be taking notes on the conversation and repeatedly asked for spellings of names and documentation he could send to the FBI.

      ‘I’ll be in touch with the FBI about this. And we’ll make arrangements with your staff. I think it probably would be best to provide these materials both to our committee and to the FBI,’ said Schiff during the conversation, which lasted around eight minutes according to the recording posted to YouTube.

      A spokesperson for Schiff confirmed he was on the call but claimed the congressman had suspicions that the caller might not be Parubiy and reported it to law enforcement last April.

      ‘Both before and after the call, we were aware that it was likely bogus and had already alerted appropriate law enforcement personnel, as well as after the call,’ the spokesperson said.

      ‘Obviously, it was bogus – which became even more evident during the call – but as with any investigation that is global in scale, we have to chase any number of leads, many of which turn out to be duds.’

      The spokesperson declined to address on the record why a staff member pursued the ‘politician’ after the call if the congressman thought it was fake.

      The FBI said it could not comment on whether it received or investigated any information about nude Trump photos or other alleged Russian ‘Kompromat’ from Schiff.

      ‘We do not disclose whether not a complaint has been received,’ an FBI spokesman told DailyMail.com. ‘We neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.’

      more :

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5355713/Adam-Schiff-spoofed-Russian-claim-nude-Trump-pic.html

    • BREITBART –Democrat Adam Schiff Fell for Russian Prankster Spoof Promising Compromising Dirt on Donald Trump

      Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), fell for a spoof by Russian pranksters who promised in a call with the top House Democrat to furnish him with“kompromat”–compromising dirt–on President Donald Trump.

      Schiff found the early 2017 call with the Russian pranksters, who posed as Ukrainian leaders, “productive,” one of his staffers wrote in an email to the Russians-posing-as-Ukrainians with whom he was communicating. Now, after getting caught in the media by reports in the Atlantic magazine and the U.K. Daily Mail newspaper—as well as audio of the call appearing on YouTube—a Schiff spokesperson claims the powerful Democrat congressman thought the call was “bogus” from the beginning. But that’s not what the record shows.[…]

      […]It remains to be seen what the fallout here is, but Schiff’s office has yet to provide any explanation for the emails and how he handled the actual call. But top Republicans are already pouncing on this demanding that he be sidelined from his role on the committee after this embarrassing development.

      Schiff getting removed from his committee role would have drastically negative consequences on the Democrats’ efforts to stick Trump with the Russia scandal anymore. He has been the public face of the investigation, appearing relentlessly on television and in the media to push it forward—and even fundraising off of Breitbart News articles about his actions.

      http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/06/democrat-adam-schiff-fell-for-russian-prankster-spoof-promising-compromising-dirt-on-donald-trump/

    • How credible is Adam Schiff?

      Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on the Democratic, Republican intelligence memos and why Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) may not be credible to the American public.

  2. Theresa May to announce crackdown on social media abuse (skynews, Feb 6, 2018)
    https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-may-to-announce-crackdown-on-social-media-abuse-11238419

    “Theresa May will announce a crackdown on social media abuse, amid concerns the coarsening of political debate is deterring women from entering public life.

    In a speech to mark the centenary of women’s right to vote on Tuesday, Britain’s second female Prime Minister will praise the “heroism” of suffragettes as she outlines proposals to deal with online “bitterness and aggression”.

    A record number of women were elected to Parliament in last June’s snap General Election.

    But there is growing concern among political parties and MPs that increasing misogyny on social media will deter women from standing for election.

    Speaking in Manchester, Mrs May will say: “While there is much to celebrate, I worry that our public debate is coarsening.

    “That for some it is harder to disagree, without also demeaning opposing viewpoints in the process.”

    The Prime Minister will say online abuse is often targeted at women, gay people and members of ethnic minorities, as she urges social media companies to do more to stamp out abuse.

    Mrs May will announce a series of measures to try to tackle online aggression, including a new annual internet safety transparency report that will provide data on how social media companies are dealing with abusive material.

    The Prime Minister will also introduce a social media code of practice later this year.

    And she will endorse the recommendations of a Commons report into intimidation, which called for legislation to shift the balance of liability for illegal content to the social media companies…”

  3. Dawn raids on suspected people trafficking gang sees arrests in Cleveland, London and East Sussex (skynews, Feb 6, 2018)
    https://news.sky.com/story/dawn-raids-on-suspected-people-trafficking-gang-sees-arrests-in-cleveland-london-and-east-sussex-11238635

    “Investigators have smashed an organised crime gang smuggling hundreds of illegal immigrants a year into the UK.

    Twenty-one suspects were arrested in a wave of early morning raids across Cleveland in the North East, London and East Sussex.

    The gang is believed to have charged immigrants up to 10,000 euros to be hidden in trucks and brought across the English Channel.

    Most of the trafficked immigrants are Iraqi Kurds, mostly men but some families have also been brought into Britain.

    Among those arrested were two men suspected of being organisers of the gang, which has been operating in France, Belgium and Holland.

    More than 350 police officers were involved in the raids co-ordinated by the National Crime Agency after a year-long investigation…”

  4. Hungarian Prime Minister: UN Migration Compact ‘Looks Like It Was Copied from the Soros Plan’ for Mass Migration (breitbart, Feb 6, 2018)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/06/orban-un-migration-compact-copied-soros-plan-mass-migration/

    “Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has blasted the “dangerous” new United Nations Global Compact on Migration, saying it bears the fingerprints of billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros.

    “Principles are being formulated which, for example, raise the possibility of lighter penalties for illegally crossing borders, or propose that every country in the world simplifies and accelerates administrative procedures – in other words that we reduce the screening of foreigners who want to enter into our countries – or that NGOs should participate in these procedures,” the conservative heavyweight explained in an interview with Kossuth Rádió.

    “Well, Hungary has had some rather bad experiences with NGOs: the bogus civil society organisations dealing with migration all eat out of George Soros’s hand,” he added.

    “By the way, what we know about the text today – as it hasn’t yet been officially released – looks as if it was copied from the Soros Plan: in spirit it’s exactly the same.”

    “A major part of cooperation activities in the field of migration is seen as being diverted to civil society organisations. God preserve Hungary from that!” he exclaimed.

    While the Central European country has not yet abandoned the compact, Prime Minister Orbán was clear that the proposals would have to change dramatically to guarantee his participation.

    “The global organisation [the UN] sees it as its task to organise a flow of people to and fro all around the world, instead of raising awareness of the inherent dangers in this,” he said.

    “We think that this is a dangerous phenomenon: I cannot recall any account of a mass population movement in the history of mankind that did not represent a grave danger to many countries … [but] instead of issuing a warning, [the UN] is promoting the organisation, implementation and simplification of migration.

    “There are countries that, like us, think that the global recognition of migration as a fundamental human right is extremely dangerous for many countries.”

    President Donald Trump’s administration has already pulled the United States out of the UN’s migration compact, rejecting it as “simply not compatible with U.S. sovereignty” shortly after the president himself characterised it as “no borders, everyone can come in!”

    Indeed, newly-appointed UN Secretary-General António Guterres — a former UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Socialist Party prime minister in his native Portugal — argued that mass migration “powers economic growth, reduces inequalities and connects diverse societies” and told national governments to “recognise and reinforce the benefits” in a column for Britain’s left-liberal Guardian newspaper.”

  5. Globalism Strikes Back: Anti-Brexit Party Inspired by Macron, Supported by French MPs to Launch in UK (breitbart, Feb 6, 2018)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/06/globalism-anti-brexit-party-macron-french-mps-launch-uk/

    “Members of Parliament from French president Emmanuel Macron’s globalist-minded movement have helped set up a party in the United Kingdom aiming to stop Brexit.
    ‘Renew’ was set up with support and advice from “several” French elected representatives from Macron’s La République En Marche (LREM) and will be launched next week, according to French news service franceinfo whose reporter was present at a recent meeting.

    Bearing the slogan, “People from outside politics to renew Britain’s hope”, the website lists three manifesto aims: “renew our economy”, “reduce inequality”, and “reverse Brexit” by fighting for a second referendum.

    “We want to stop Brexit and believe a second referendum on the final deal negotiated with the EU is overwhelmingly in the interests of both Leave and Remain supporters,” the website states.

    “We will put pressure on all politicians to offer a second referendum by standing parliamentary candidates in every constituency in the UK.”…

    The party wants to replicate the success of progressive, pro-European Union President Macron….”

  6. Tribesmen torch pro-government militia office in NW Pakistan (abcnews, Feb 6, 2018)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/tribesmen-torch-pro-government-militia-office-nw-pakistan-52867926

    “Pakistani police say an enraged crowd of thousands of Wazir tribesmen has torched the house and office of the commander of a pro-government militia in the country’s northwest.

    Police official Ataullah Khan says tribesmen were angry Tuesday over the death of a young man from the tribe in the town of Dera Ismail Khan. He says Jalal Wazir was allegedly shot dead by Sher Mohammad and his accomplice after a quarrel two days ago. Mohammad is known as the commander of the militia.

    The crowd marched to Mohammad’s residence demanding his arrest. They also torched the office of the militia and two vehicles. The situation was brought under control after the military arrived.

    The government-patronized militia counters Islamic militants in the town, the gateway to the Waziristan tribal region.”

  7. Banks Shutter 1,700 Branches in Fastest Decline on Record
    Lenders keep cutting despite growing economy as customers move online

    Banks are closing branches at the fastest pace in decades, as they leave less profitable regions and fewer customers use tellers for routine transactions.

    The number of branches in the U.S. shrank by more than 1,700 in the 12 months ended in June 2017, the biggest decline on record, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal data.

    Branch numbers fell again in the second half of 2017, according to related data submitted to bank regulators and reviewed by the Journal. That would add to the thousands of locations closed following the financial crisis, and is the longest stretch of closures since the Great Depression.

    Many of the closings were in big cities and surrounding suburbs, where branches were consolidated largely because of falling foot traffic. Others were in rural areas, where some large regional lenders are leaving town altogether.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-double-down-on-branch-cutbacks-1517826601

  8. As Bitcoin Bubble Loses Air, Frauds and Flaws Rise to Surface

    SAN FRANCISCO — You did not have to be a technophobe to worry that the virtual-currency boom of the past year papered over plenty of problems.

    The scale of those problems is starting to become clear as digital tokens have slid more than 50 percent in value from their peaks in early January, with steep drops on Monday pushing the value of Bitcoin specifically below $7,000.

    Hackers draining funds from online exchanges. Ponzi schemes. Government regulators unable to keep up with the rise of so-called cryptocurrencies. Signs of trouble have appeared at nearly every level of the industry, from the biggest exchanges to the news sites and chat rooms where the investment frenzy has been discussed.

    On Tuesday, the leaders of the two main regulatory agencies in the United States that oversee the technology, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, are to testify before the Senate banking committee about their efforts to police virtual currency markets. In the past two weeks, both have brought major cases, but people in the young industry said regulators had barely made a dent.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/technology/virtual-currency-regulation.html

  9. Report: China Moves 300,000 Troops Closer to North Korean Border

    China is reportedly moving missile defense batteries and troops closer to its border with North Korea, a potential sign that Beijing anticipates either a large refugee wave north or a military disturbance triggered by the belligerence of communist dictator Kim Jong-un.

    The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo cited Radio Free Asia (RFA) in a report Monday, stating that RFA had compiled evidence that China had “late last year deployed another missile defense battery at an armored division in Helong, west of Longjing in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture.”

    The “North Korean source in China” speaking to RFA also noted that Pyongyang had observed the movement of 300,000 troops closer to the North Korean border and “missile defense batteries near North Korean reservoirs by the Apnok and Duman rivers.” The batteries would prevent the violent outpouring of those reservoirs into China in the event of an airstrike.

    “North Korea is a time bomb,” remarked Professor Shi Yinhong. “We can only delay the explosion, hoping that by delaying it, a time will come to remove the detonator.”

    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/02/05/report-china-moves-300000-troops-closer-north-korean-border/

    • “North Korea is a time bomb,” remarked Professor Shi Yinhong. “We can only delay the explosion, hoping that by delaying it, a time will come to remove the detonator.”

      The problem is that we have no more time to wait, Kim is too close to having nuclear weapons that can be mated with missiles. Once he has both he will either use them to blackmail his neighbors, attack nations he doesn’t like or sell them to nations or groups that will use them against nations he doesn’t like. We have to remove Kim’s ability to produce nukes and missiles or we are in a true countdown to a nuclear war. Just to add a little spice to the mix remember the close relationship between Iran and China/North Korea so once KIm has nukes that mate with missiles so does Iran.

    • North Korea ‘months away’ from ability to hit U.S. with nuclear weapon: U.S. envoy

      GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea is only months away from obtaining the capability to hit U.S. territory with a nuclear weapon and must be disarmed, a U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, dismissing Pyonyang’s diplomatic thaw with South Korea as a “charm offensive” that fooled no one.

      In a diplomatic showdown at a U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, North Korea responded by blaming Washington for escalating confrontation, saying it was deploying nuclear assets including aircraft carriers near the divided peninsula and was considering a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang.

      “North Korea has accelerated its provocative pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, and expressed explicit threats to use nuclear weapons against the United States and its allies in the region,” U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood told the Geneva forum.

      “North Korean officials insist that they will not give up nuclear weapons, and North Korea may now be only months away from the capability to strike the United States with nuclear-armed ballistic missiles,” he said.

      A new U.S. nuclear policy review outlined last week “reaffirms that North Korea’s illicit nuclear program must be completely, verifiably, and irreversibly eliminated, resulting in a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,” he said.

      Asked later what the basis was for the assessment that North Korea would soon be able to hit the United States with a nuclear weapon, he said he had “no new information to share”.

      http://www.oann.com/u-s-warns-on-growing-nuclear-arsenals-of-china-russia-north-korea/

  10. IG poised to reignite war over FBI’s Clinton case

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    Few people have heard of Michael Horowitz, but that’s about to change.

    Horowitz, the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general, is an increasingly critical player in the controversy surrounding the FBI, President Trump and the Russia investigation.

    With little fanfare, he has been conducting a sprawling probe of the FBI’s handling of the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. His full report, which could set off shockwaves, is expected by the early spring.

    A political appointee in both the Bush and Obama administrations, Horowitz’s yearlong investigation already reportedly contributed to the early resignation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. And his work has been felt in other ways.

    http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/372457-ig-poised-to-reignite-war-over-fbis-clinton-case

  11. Grassley-Graham memo: Steele apparently used info from Clinton associate in his own dossier
    By J.E. Dyer February 5, 2018

    A January 2018 memo to FBI Assistant Director Rod Rosenstein from Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was partially declassified and made public on Friday, 2 February. In it, the senators assert that in October 2016, while he was compiling his dossier, Christopher Steele received information relevant to the dossier from an associate of the Clintons, and apparently incorporated it in the dossier. (H/t: Washington Free Beacon.)

    This is something we could have put together as likely, using previously known information. But with the declassified portion of the Grassley-Graham memo now available — which quotes directly from a Steele memo that hasn’t been released previously to the public (but which the FBI holds) – it looks like it did indeed happen.

    The senators’ memo was forwarded to refer Steele to the FBI for investigation: specifically, for apparently making false statements in one forum or another. The senators summarize their concern in the bottom paragraph on page 1:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/05/grassley-graham-memo-steele-apparently-used-info-clinton-associate-dossier/

  12. Fusion GPS might have been trying to buy access to DOJ with payments to Bruce Ohr’s wife
    By LU Staff February 6, 2018

    Under a contract from the Clinton campaign, the Fusion GPS research firm was paying the wife of a senior Department of Justice official as part of its efforts to gather opposition research on Trump, and the same official then brought that research to the FBI.

    Knowledge of the relationship has raised questions about the extent to which the firm may have paid for heightened access to the criminal justice system and whether they would have hired Nellie Ohr absent her spousal connection to the DOJ.

    A declassified memo said that Bruce “Ohr’s wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the” court when it was used to obtain a surveillance warrant.

    Bruce Ohr was deputy associate attorney general until December. House investigators determined that he met personally with Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS’s founder.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/06/fusion-gps-might-trying-buy-access-justice-dept-payments-bruce-ohrs-wife/

    • I don’t get this. Each high-ranking Fed has to file an annual burdensome, invasive financial disclosure to account for all income. Wouldn’t be the case that his supervisor would have known about Mr. Ohr’s wife’s contract?

      • They file those only if they have to obey the law, if Hillary had won this criminal action would have never been known. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that these are honest people who are making honest mistakes. These are people who think they are so special they are above the law, they don’t care what the Constitution of US Code says they know what is best for the nation and aren’t going to let petty details like the law stop them. That is how they are thinking, some are doing this because they are committed Marxists who want to destroy all of civilization so they can create a socialist utopia. Others are doing this for personal power and money but all think that they are better then everyone else and that special laws apply to them.

  13. Revolving door: It took CNN less than 48 hours to hire Comey’s assistant
    By LU Staff February 5, 2018

    The former FBI agent who announced his retirement from the federal agency in a New York Times column on Friday after he claimed the “relentless attacks on the bureau” made it “impossible” to continue working there, promptly received a CNN job as a law enforcement analyst in less than 48 hours.

    Josh Campbell, who until a few hours ago, billed himself on his Twitter account as an “assistant” to former FBI Director James Comey (he has since deleted this fact from his bio), debuted on CNN Monday. The author section of his Times column also notes that he served as “special assistant to the bureau’s director.”

    It remains unclear why Campbell has decided to remove this information from his account, but Comey did share his Times column on Twitter Friday and said Campbell’s “voice is an important addition to the national conversation,” signaling a relationship between the two men and possible knowledge of Campbell’s new role as a cable news pundit.

    The quick transition from FBI agent to on-air contributor raises questions about Campbell’s relationship with the network. More months, the cable news network has relied on anonymous sources within the federal law enforcement agency.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/05/revolving-door-took-cnn-less-48-hours-hire-comeys-assistant/

    • the daily caller EXCLUSIVE: Here’s The FBI Farewell Flyer Of Comey’s Assistant Saying He’s Going To ‘CNN To Defend’ The FBI

      A source in direct contact with the FBI has provided The Daily Caller with a copy of the farewell party flyer for former assistant to FBI Director James Comey, Josh Campbell, which informed attendees they could celebrate his new position at CNN, where he would “[defend] the Bureau” on air.

      The flyer was distributed to all FBI employees at the Los Angeles bureau on the afternoon of January 29, 2017, and was provided to TheDC by a source in direct contact with those employees.

      http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Josh-Campbell-Goodbye-Flier-.png

      The FBI declined to comment on the flyer, saying the bureau does not confirm or deny any official or unofficial communications.

      CNN did not respond to TheDC’s request for comment.

      Campbell authored a Friday op-ed for The New York Times declaring that he was leaving the bureau “so [he] can join the growing chorus of people who believe that the relentless attacks on the bureau undermine not just America’s premier law enforcement agency but also the nation’s security.”

      CNN then announced Campbell as a law enforcement analyst Monday during his debut on the air.

      Campbell also took aim at Republican House intelligence committee members for authoring a recent memo showing alleged political abuse of surveillance powers by top officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice.

      “These political attacks on the bureau must stop,” he wrote. “If those critics of the agency persuade the public that the F.B.I. cannot be trusted, they will also have succeeded in making our nation less safe.”

      The op-ed drew praise from Comey who lamented Campbell’s resignation from the FBI and added that his “voice is an important addition to the national conversation.”

      Special Agent Josh Campbell will be missed at the FBI, but his voice is an important addition to the national conversation. @joshscampbell

      https://t.co/TETeRrou8C
      — James Comey (@Comey) February 3, 2018

      http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/06/fbi-flyer-celebrates-cnn-josh-campbell-defend-the-bureau/

  14. Tweet of the Day: Why do Republicans and @realDonaldTrump hate cops?
    By Howard Portnoy February 5, 2018

    It was only a matter of time before some member of the mainstream media “went there,” asking this utterly preposterous rhetorical question in one form or another.

    The trigger, of course, is the release of the Nunes FISA memo, which — kindly note — implicates precisely five (count ’em, five) current or former FBI or Justice Department higher-ups: Former FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

    What do these five people have in common? All filed one or more FISA applications targeting Carter Page.

    Republicans, in other words, aren’t going after the entire FBI or Justice Department — just specific individuals believed to have obtained permission under false pretenses to spy on the Trump campaign.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/05/tweet-day-republicans-realdonaldtrump-hate-cops/

    • Jim Jordan Reveals Key Figure Involved In Benghazi Involved In Steele Dossier

      Republican Rep. Jim Jordan accused key Clinton allies of helping craft a second anti-Trump dossier and accused them of “rigging the game,” Tuesday on “Fox & Friends.”

      Jordan was asked about a possible second dossier and said
      Clinton operatives Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer had paid Christopher Steele to do opposition research, but then told Steele which specific details to include.

      “The names we keep hearing are Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer — people who have been around the Clintons as being a part of this. But I also think it’s kind of interesting because what it looks like is, they paid Steele to put together the dossier and told him what to put in,” Jordan said. “Talk about rigging the game and putting together a document that will serve your purposes as an opposition research document.”

      “That is what the Clinton team did and then when you see names like Sidney Blumenthal coming up. We deposed this guy during the Benghazi hearings,” Jordan continued. “He has been with the Clintons forever. He was knee deep in the whole Libya, Benghazi story, particularly the story where they weren’t square with the American people about what was the actual catalyst of the attack, and they tried to blame it on video.”

      Jordan expressed outrage at how the government omitted information about the dossier while seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant and said it was vital for the American public to have seen the GOP’s recently released FISA memo.

      “That dossier was taken to a secret court to get a secret warrant to spy on fellow citizen and they weren’t clear with the court who paid for it, who was involved with, and the fact that they had already fired Chris Steele from any type of relationship with the FBI because he broke a fundamental trust. He went to the press and told them he was working with the FBI. And yet they still used this work product, this dossier,” Jordan concluded. “That’s what’s so ridiculous about how they handled this, and why that memo last week from the Republicans was so important that the American people see.”

      http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/06/jim-jordan-benghazi-steele-dossier/

      • See a pattern? I wonder if there are dossiers on each of the other Republican candidates in case of a win by someone other than Trump.

        http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/03/benghazi-youtube-filmmaker-lives-quiet-life-in-l-a-homeless-shelter/
        “I’m a very poor person. I’m a homeless person. I like to keep my mouth shut. I don’t like to go to jail again. I like to stay with people and be quiet and keep a low profile.” Although, it was later revealed that Nakoula’s video did not cause the attack, Clinton and the rest of the administration never took responsibility for falsely blaming the movie.

    • NYT thinks it’s the old National Geographic. Shows us sympathetic savages, nobly fighting for ‘basic human rights’.
      What’s missing is what their subjects mean when they say “human rights”.
      Mj. Coughlin is as urgently needed here as everywhere else.

  15. Libya forces ‘may be colluding with migrant smugglers’ (alaraby, Feb 5, 2018)
    https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2018/2/6/libya-forces-may-be-colluding-with-migrant-smugglers

    “Human trafficking is on the rise in Libya, according to a report by a UN panel of experts which found that Libyan forces may be helping rebel groups tighten their control of smuggling routes.

    The confidential report sent to the UN Security Council also said the Islamic State group is seeking to join migrant smugglers in southern Libya after it was pushed out of Sirte in 2016.

    “Human trafficking is on the rise in Libya, resulting in major human rights violations,” said the 157-page report by the panel of experts, seen by AFP on Monday.

    The panel raised concern “over the possible use of state facilities and state funds by armed groups and traffickers to enhance their control of migration routes.”

    Libya has long been a transit hub for migrants, but smugglers have stepped up their lucrative business in the years that followed the 2011 ouster of Moammer Gaddafi.

    The fate of migrants has come under intense security since film footage emerged last year of Africans auctioned off as slaves in Libya, drawing outrage from African governments.

    The report cited accounts from Eritrean migrants arrested in 2016 in Tripoli by agents of a special force affiliated to Libya’s interior ministry who handed them over to migrant smugglers “against payment”.

    Four Bangladeshi migrants arrested by the Special Deterrence Force (SDF) in Tripoli were held in a government detention centre in 2015 even though they held valid work visas.

    The migrants paid $300 US each to the SDF and were sent to another Libyan city where they were loaded on boats for Europe “against their will”, the report said.

    “The panel is assessing whether the SDF’s leadership was aware of collusion and trafficking being conducted within its ranks,” said the report…”

  16. Syria war: UN calls for truce as government pounds rebel enclave (BBC, Feb 6, 2018)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42962988

    “The UN has appealed for an immediate ceasefire in Syria, as the government intensified its bombardment of a besieged rebel enclave near Damascus.

    UN officials said they needed at least a month to deliver aid to conflict zones and evacuate the critically ill.

    Their call came as air strikes reportedly killed more than 40 people in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area.

    UN war crimes experts also said they were investigating reports of bombs containing chlorine being used there.

    Medics, opposition activists and Western powers say government forces have used the toxic chemical in six attacks in the past 30 days in the Eastern Ghouta and the town of Saraqeb, in the rebel-held north-western province of Idlib.

    The government has dismissed the reports as “lies”, but the head of the UN’s International Commission of Inquiry on Syria called them “alarming”…”

  17. French Police Detain Gunman Who Opened Fire in Marseille (sputniknews, Feb 6, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201802061061393295-shooting-france-marseille-special-operation/

    “The motive of the suspected person behind the shooting remains unclear. There have been no reports of casualties as a result of the incident.

    Police have detained a gunman, who had opened fire on a street in the French city of Marseille.

    A special operation has been conducted in order to neutralize the suspect, according to La Provence.

    After opening fire, the suspect, whose motive remains unclear, barricaded himself in a building.

    A police source was cited by France Bleu as saying that the incident is unlikely to be linked to terrorism…”

  18. FEW DUTCH JIHADISTS RETURNED TO NL AFTER FALL OF ISIS CALIPHATE: REPORT (nltimes, Feb 6, 2018)
    https://nltimes.nl/2018/02/06/dutch-jihadists-returned-nl-fall-isis-caliphate-report

    “Very few Dutch jihadists who went to join terrorist organizations in Syria or Iraq, returned to the Netherlands after the fall of the Islamic State caliphate, according to research from the Egmont Institute, an independent think tank in Brussels, ANP reports

    An estimated total of 280 Dutch went to fight in the Syrian Civil War. At the start of 2015, 40 had returned to the Netherlands. By the end of 2017, that number gradually increased to 50, according to the Egmont Institute. Those figures correspond to data from Dutch intelligence service AIVD and American think tank Soufan Center.

    In all of Europe, some 1,500 jihadists have returned in different phases since 2012. They returned for various reasons, ranging from being traumatized and disillusioned to coming back to do harm. The researchers believe that seasoned jihadists will no longer return to their home countries in large numbers. The most recent returnees were mainly women, sometimes returning to Europe with a child…”

  19. Iranian MP: 5000 Arrested After Protests, 500 Still Detained (sputniknews, Feb 6, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201802061061384852-iran-protests-arrests-5000-aftermath/

    “An Iranian parliamentarian has claimed that nearly 5,000 people were arrested during protests around the turn of the year. Almost 500 of those arrested remain imprisoned, pending investigation.

    Alireza Rahimi, a pro-democratic reform MP, said on cloud-based messaging service Telegram that 4,972 Iranians were arrested and 492 remain in custody, with the rest having been released. The majority of those arrested were men, Rahimi added.

    The Iranian judiciary added to Rahimi’s claim, telling the Iranian Labor News Agency that it wasn’t clear how many of those arrests were directly linked to the protests.

    In addition to those arrests, an estimated 21 to 25 people were killed during the protests. The Guardian reported at least two protesters were killed with hunting rifles by police, and the US-backed Radio Farda said five protesters died in a Tehran prison under police custody.

    One of the protesters killed in prison, Sina Ghanbari, allegedly committed suicide, according to law enforcement. Rahimi, who viewed the footage of Ghanbari’s death, disputed the claim, saying that he was killed by his guards…”

  20. Erdogan: US Presence in Syria’s Manbij Aimed Against Turkey, Russia, Iran (sputniknews, Feb 6, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/201802061061396052-turkey-syria-manbij-us-troops/

    “”If the United States says they are sending 5,000 trucks and 2,000 cargo planes with weapons for the fight against Daesh (Islamic State), we don’t believe this. It means you have calculations against Turkey and Iran, and maybe Russia,” Erdogan told members of his ruling AK Party in parliament.”

    • Turkey: Erdogan brushes off Washington’s criticism of Afrin op

      Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed Washington’s criticisms of Turkey’s military operation in the Syrian city of Afrin, during a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK), in Turkish Parliament on Tuesday.

      Erdogan said, “When are you going to finish with us asking the question? When did you finish your operations in Afghanistan? When did you finish your operations in Iraq? It’s been 18 years. You still remain there. You do not have such problem like Turkey. You do not have borders. You are not neighbours. What are you doing there?”

      During the meeting, Erdogan also stated that the “operations in Afrin are proceeding with determination, and will continue in Idlib.”

      On January 20, Erdogan announced the beginning of the military offensive ‘Operation Olive Branch’ in Afrin against the Kurdish (People’s Protection Units) YPG militia.

    • US Presence in Syria’s Manbij Aimed Against Turkey, Russia, Iran

      To quote _the_ NorseRadish:
      What’s not to like?

  21. Yemeni officials say government forces retake strategic city (abcnews, Feb 6, 2018)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemeni-officials-government-forces-retake-strategic-city-52875628

    “Yemeni officials say forces loyal to the country’s internationally recognized government have recaptured a key crossroads town in the southwestern province of Hodeidah in an effort to cut off supply lines to the Shiite rebels.

    Yemen’s war pits a Saudi-led coalition allied with the internationally recognized government against Shiite Houthi rebels, who are allied with Iran and control much of northern Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.

    The officials said Tuesday that forces backed by airstrikes from the Saudi coalition have taken control of the town of Hays after two weeks of fierce fighting against the rebels. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

    The officials say the fighting has killed at least 85 people from both sides in the past 48 hours.”

  22. There are 64 US jihadis in Iraq and Syria, finds new report (independent, Feb 6, 2018)
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-jihadi-militants-iraq-syria-isis-americans-george-washington-university-report-a8197406.html

    “Sixty-four Americans have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join jihadist groups, according to a new report.

    The George Washington University Programme on Extremism’s report, titled “The Travellers: American Jihadists in Syria and Iraq,” included several people whose identities have never been released, as well as 12 people who returned to the US.

    The study found that most of the American jihadists were associated with terror group Isis and came mostly from Minnesota, Virginia, and Ohio, but were spread across more than 16 states.

    A few characteristics were common for these 64 people – being male, and with an average of 27.

    But the authors of the report warned that no single profile, whether demographically or in terms of motivation, could be used to peg these jihadist-travellers.

    As the report stated: “Far fewer foreign volunteers joined up with Isis from the US than from Europe.”

    “The estimated number of foreign volunteers from Europe ranges from 5,000 to 6,000, most of them from France, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom, while US officials speak of several hundred,” it said.

    That figure – estimated to be 250-300 Americans – included people arrested prior to leaving the country, those arrested abroad, and those known to have been killed.

    However, the real numbers remain somewhat unclear. “Most of the 250 to 300 American jihadist recruits mentioned by authorities have not been publicly identified, suggesting ongoing investigations, sealed indictments, and some uncertainty,” the report stated.

    Of the 64 identifiable travellers, 12 had returned to the US by the time the report was completed.

    Only one of them was identified by police to have come back with an intent to attack the US.

    While social media groups and Isis’ extensive online presence were part of the equation in how these Americans ended up in the terror group’s ranks, the researchers found that personal networks within the US prior to their trips is really what made the difference.

    “More than 85 percent of the travellers in this study had personal connections to other travellers or jihadist supporters in the U.S. prior to leaving for Syria or Iraq,” researchers wrote.”

  23. Forcing bakers to make gay wedding cakes violates free speech, California judge rules

    A ruling in favor of a California baker who refused to design a wedding cake for a gay couple produced a potentially significant distinction that could impact future similar cases.

    Kern County Judge David Lampe ruled that the state could not force Cathy Miller, owner of Tastries Bakery, to bake a cake that would go against her beliefs, according to Kern Golden Empire.

    “For this court to force such compliance would do violence to the essentials of Free Speech guaranteed under the First Amendment,” the judge said in the ruling.

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/02/06/forcing-bakers-to-make-gay-wedding-cakes-violates-free-speech-california-judge-rules

  24. Parents of NC Pizza Hut robbery suspect question why worker fatally shot their son

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) — It’s been a difficult week for parents Temia Hairston and Michael Grace Sr. Their son, Michael Grace Jr., was shot and killed during an attempted robbery early Sunday morning.

    “If there was to be a death, it was not the place of the employee at Pizza Hut. That is the place of law enforcement,” said Hairston.

    “Why in the hell did this guy have a gun?” questioned Hairston about the employee who shot her son.

    She said her son was shot in the head, and she thinks the shooting may have even been personal, citing past conflicts Grace Jr. had had with other employees at the restaurant.

    http://wncn.com/2016/11/03/parents-of-pizza-hut-robbery-suspect-question-why-employee-fatally-shot-their-son-in-the-head/

  25. The Left’s Memo Hysteria
    The Dems’ meltdown is in full effect.
    February 6, 2018
    Matthew Vadum

    Democrats and other left-wingers melted down in unison over the weekend after the release of a congressional memo asserting that Obama-era officials relied on the discredited Trump-Russia dossier to obtain court-ordered foreign-intelligence wiretaps against U.S. citizens in a bid to reverse the results of the 2016 presidential election.

    The extended freakout came after the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence publicly unveiled a newly declassified four-page report detailing intelligence surveillance abuses perpetrated by the Obama administration during the past election cycle. As expected, the document confirmed more or less all the terrible things we’ve been hearing about the disgraced Federal Bureau of Investigation and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Justice.

    One of the more outrageous examples of hyperbole came from Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who absurdly claimed “the release of this memo is really reminiscent of the darkest days of the McCarthy era.”

    As left-wingers see things, when governmental transparency exposes Republican wrongdoing, it is noble, patriotic, and just. When it exposes Democrat wrongdoing, it is terrorism and treason.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269230/lefts-memo-hysteria-matthew-vadum

  26. Did Clinton Associates and Obama State Dept. Feed Info to Steele?
    Questions mount over Steele dossier corruption.
    February 6, 2018
    Joseph Klein

    Democrats and their apologists in the mainstream media are in a state of pitiful denial. They refuse to accept the fact that certain senior officials at the FBI and Department of Justice with political agendas misled the FISA court in their applications for a warrant to spy on an American citizen, Carter Page. First, the Democrats and their apologists raised the specter of a national security crisis if the House Intelligence Committee memo on the discredited Christopher Steele anti-Trump “dossier,” used in part to justify the surveillance warrant, were made public. Then, when the memo was made public, they claimed, in the words of California Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu, that it was a “nothing burger.” There was in fact a lot of beef in the memo, but Democrats and their progressive friends have eliminated truth from their diets.

    We shall see what so-called “context” the Democrats put into their rebuttal memo, if and when released. Given their tendency to put their heads in the sand when evidence of malfeasance by partisan higher-ups in the nation’s chief law enforcement agencies stares them in the face, we can expect little more than spin.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269232/did-clinton-associates-and-obama-state-dept-feed-joseph-klein

  27. Are the Dems Trying to Tank the Economy?
    February 6, 2018
    Daniel Greenfield

    The media’s shocking glee over stock market losses showed just how much they want this country to lose. It made the refusal of their Democrat allies to applaud the economic recovery seem almost patriotic by comparison.

    Forget what’s good for Detroit is good for America. Try, what’s bad for America might help them win an election.

    Democrats are vowing to undo parts of the GOP’s tax-code overhaul if they win back control of the House in November…

    Democratic leaders are encouraging their troops to stage district-based tax-reform “teach-ins” designed to convince voters “what this tax scam means to families,” in the words of the direct appeal from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

    Pelosi acknowledged Democrats will need to retake the House to have any chance of repealing and replacing the tax law.

    “It may have to be a ‘replace and repeal’ — replace them and repeal the bill,” she said.

    The numbers for tax reform have been rising. So it makes sense for the Dems to redouble their efforts to defame tax reform. But there’s only so much you can say to convince people that having more money is bad for them. And I don’t think this move is really aimed at the election.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269241/are-dems-trying-tank-economy-daniel-greenfield

  28. Don’t Call it the Steele Dossier, Call it the Clinton Dossier
    February 5, 2018
    Daniel Greenfield

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269231/dont-call-it-steele-dossier-call-it-clinton-daniel-greenfield

    My research had previously suggested that the Steele Dossier may have really been the work of Cody Shearer, one of Bill’s plumbers. The Grassley memo doesn’t name Shearer but indicates that the dossier produced by Christopher Steele had been based on work from the Clinton campaign.

  29. France: Migrant Crisis Spirals Out of Control

    by Soeren Kern
    February 6, 2018 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11848/france-migrant-crisis

    Hundreds of Africans and Asians armed with knives and iron rods fought running street battles in the northern port city of Calais on February 1, less than two weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron visited the area and pledged to crack down on illegal immigration.

    The clashes plunged Calais — emblematic of Europe’s failure to control mass migration — into a war zone and reinforced the perception that French authorities have lost control of the country’s security situation.

    The mass brawls, fought in at least three different parts of Calais, erupted after a 37-year-old Afghan migrant running a human trafficking operation fired gunshots at a group of Africans who did not have money to pay for his services. Five Africans suffered life-threatening injuries.

    • Knives and what were probably rebar clubs, if the rioters were using them the cops should have been using guns.

  30. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Serving Canada or Serving Islamists?

    by Tom Quiggin
    February 6, 2018 at 4:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11849/canada-cbc-islamists

    Canada’s state broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) consistently supports the Islamist cause, including direct cooperation with terrorist front groups. This support extends to editing domestic Canadian stories to ensure that even ISIS is not criticized in the domestic context. Given that the CBC is owned by the Government of Canada and funded by taxpayers with a billion dollar a year subsidy, the question arises as to whom they serve.

    The CBC deliberately removes references to ISIS and other Islamist groups when it would reflect poorly on the terrorist group’s presence and influence in Canada. On February 19, 2016, for instance, the CBC ran a story concerning events at Maisonneuve College in Montreal. The bland title was “Collège de Maisonneuve teachers’ union wants action over alleged library threats.”

    In this CBC story, the teacher’s union demanded that the college management intervene after threats made to staff in the college’s library. Line Légaré, the college’s spokesperson, stated teachers had intervened and asked students to lower their voices because they were “quite loud, more than we would like for a library.” Police had reported violence in the parking lot on one evening.

  31. twitter @MikeTokes

    BREAKING: Every phone number and address on Anthony Weiner’s FBI confiscated laptop was just leaked.

    The list includes the names, addresses, & phone numbers of 603 politicians & media personalities including HRC, Jake Tapper, David Brock, Soros and more.

    https://twitter.com/MikeTokes/status/960974446507958273

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    Somebody Just Leaked Every Phone Number and Address on Anthony Weiner’s Laptop: 639 Politicians and Media Personalities Doxxed

    Former congressman Anthony Weiner’s old haunts are coming back into the spotlight once again after he was arrested and sentenced to 21 months in prison for sexting a minor. A list recently released to the public contains information on all of Anthony Weiner’s contacts; names, addresses, work, and so forth. The kicker? All of this information was released straight from Weiner’s laptop, which is currently being held under evidence by the FBI.

    It’s important to note that we are not trying to “witch hunt” anyone, and this information is not meant for you to do the same. We are not interested in doxxing these individuals, rather we are interested in reporting on the doxxing list that was released, potentially by a rogue FBI agent. This laptop is under FBI surveillance and the reason we know this is because they found emails sent between him and Hillary Clinton back when the email scandal was all anyone ever talked about. Who else but someone in the FBI would have released this? We aren’t saying that it’s definitely a member of the FBI, but who else could possibly be responsible?

    Now, on to the list. There is a grand total of 639 individuals who are having their private information exposed for all the world to see. People such as:

    Rabbi Arturo Valenzuela. Al Gore . Hillary Clinton. Terry McAuliffe. John Podesta.

    Tamera Luzzatto, the woman who previously wrote disturbing emails to John Podesta and operated a website where she solicited children in many inappropriate ways. From hot time with adults for “entertainment purposes” to just being an all-around creep, it’s no surprise that someone like Anthony Weiner would associate themselves with a known pedophile.

    George Soros. Of course. Perhaps he had hoped he could get some sort of “get out of jail free card” since Soros is known to throw his money at absolute scum.

    Also on the list are names like Jake Tapper, Greta Van Sustren, and even a few Rothschild’s thrown in there. The list is archived, probably so that Hillary Clinton couldn’t send someone to delete it. Again, who if not someone from the FBI, could have possibly released this information? The FBI are the only ones who have access to his computer so unless someone can out hack the FBI, we have a rogue agent on our hands.

    https://squawker.org/politics/somebody-just-leaked-every-phone-number-and-address-on-anthony-weiners-laptop-639-politicians-and-media-personalities-doxxed/

  32. Former Peace Corps Official Connected To John Kerry’s Daughter’s Nonprofit Charged With Illegal Lobbying
    Photo of Ethan Barton
    Ethan Bart

    A senior Peace Corps official who helped steer Department-of-State-funded contracts to a nonprofit founded and managed by former Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter was charged in federal court with illegally lobbying his former government colleagues, according to a criminal charge made public Monday.

    Prosecutors charged former Peace Corps Office of Global Health and HIV Director Warren “Buck” Buckingham with violating a federal conflict of interest law, Politico first reported.

    Buckingham “knowingly and willfully made, with the intent to influence” communications with Peace Corps officials “in connection with a particular matter” from around August 2015 through around September 2015, said the charging document that was filed Friday, but made public Monday.

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/05/warren-buckingham-john-kerry-illegal-lobbying/

    Richard: Another case of Hillary is going to win and nothing will be done.

    • If the story is true, then he needs our pity more than our umbrage. I hope he takes stock of what he still has left to offer fellow citizens and proceeds on a new course in life, having learned from his mistakes.